Language

Language for interacting with others

AC9E9LA01 – recognise how language empowers relationships and roles
AC9E9LA02 – understand how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices such as allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor

AC9E9LA03 – examine how authors adapt and subvert text structures and language features by experimenting with spoken, written, visual and multimodal elements, and their combination
AC9E9LA04 – investigate a range of cohesive devices that condense information in texts, including nominalisation, and devices that link, expand and develop ideas, including text connectives

AC9E9LA05 – identify how authors vary sentence structures creatively for effects, such as intentionally using a dependent clause on its own or a sentence fragment
AC9E9LA06 – understand how abstract nouns and nominalisation can be used to summarise ideas in text
AC9E9LA07 – analyse how symbols in still and moving images augment meaning
AC9E9LA08 – analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to style, mood and tone
AC9E9LA09 – understand punctuation conventions for referencing and citing others for formal and informal purposes